KNOW & GO Updates @your Library

Parkway School District Volume 3 | Issue 5

Contact InformationBill BassInnovation Coordinator: Instructional Technology & Library MediaTwitter: billbass

Kim LindskogLibrary System Support Specialist Twitter: klindskog

Amy Johnson Digital Learning SpecialistTwitter: ajohnson106

Nancy IkemeyerAdministrative AssistantSkype: nancy,ikemeyer.pearlTwitter: NancyIkemeyer

Access the Library Services Webpage

using the QR code or www.tinyurl.com/libserv

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Library Services Answers to FAQs

● Librarians List 2015-16

● Who To Call● Ordering

procedures● Follett ordering

w/screenshots● Follett Acct #'s● Follett req

Instructions● Building budget● Sample budget ● Substitute librarian

list● Sub Training

Videos● Standing orders● Ordering/renewing

databases HS only● Destiny FAQ Page

of Answers● Mobile

Makerspace Kit Request

● Number of Presentations outside of Parkway +67%

● Newsletter Inquiries +59%● Makerspaces +56%● Genrefication +50%● Weeding +50%● Rethinking Library spaces +48%● Scheduling (fixed/flex) +43%● Digital Citizenship +31%● Tablets/Mobile Learning +25%● Partnership work +20%● Technology Integration +11%● Gaming/Gamification +10%

● Gaming/Gamification 63%● Makerspaces 56%● Genrefication 40%● Rethinking library spaces 38%

Professional Learning topics that are of most interest:● Technology Integration 83%● Library Advocacy 76%● Collaboration/Co-teaching 73%● eContent/Digital Reading 70%● Digital Citizenship 68%● Media Literacy 68%● Public Library Partnerships 55%

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9 Google Summit Saturday Oct. 10

12 Follett visits with Gina Oct 12th-30th

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Dates at a Glance

Follett Visits Gina Donato will be available to visit you beginning the week of October 12th extending until the end of the month. I have shared a Google calendar with you titled Follett visit's. I have also shared with Gina. Feel free to make appointments to discuss anything: Follett, Destiny, ebooks, Brytewave, etc. If possible, but not required, if you notice a school in your area scheduled an appt., try to schedule around that. Please be sure you are on the calendar titled Follett visit's (under my calendars). If you don't, you are only creating an event on your own Google calendar.

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Nancy’s Nook & Other NotesNew Earn Credit by Attending EventsIn addition to earning credits by watching webinars, you can also earn credits by attending events. See details in the Personalized Learning section of this newsletter.

Push out to ParentsParents, wondering how to talk to kids about digital citizenship? Start here with Common Sense Media. Downloadable tips and links to support for all ages of students. Digital Citizenship Week - October 18-24 #havethetalk www.commonsensemedia.org

Tablet DistributionIn the next few weeks I will be making the rounds to distribute the Samsung Tab4 tablets that Bill discussed at our opening meeting in August. The tablets are currently being updated and charged. The mounts however will not be available at this time due to a manufacturing glitch. More information will be coming soon as well.

Hi everyone, this should be the last email you'll get from me today. Last year as we were preparing to implement Google Apps I offered any librarian who was interested the opportunity to either be reimbursed for a passed test or given district PD credit. I want to extend that opportunity to you once again. If you are interested in learning more about Google and Google Apps, this is a great, self-paced development opportunity. There are a number of librarians who already participated last year so ask your fellow librarians (or Kim) to get some insight on this. All information (including study materials and the tests themselves) can be found at http://www.google.com/edu/training/certifications/. You can take any or all of the required and/or elective tests that you want. Click on the "Certification" tab to get to the information. If you are interested, please let Nancy know and she will begin to form a list so we can keep track. Each test is $15 and, upon submitting your certificate we will get your credit (at the end of the year) or reimbursed. I hope that some of you will take advantage of this opportunity. Let me know if you have questions.

Hi everyone,If you haven't received it yet, sometime today you will get an email with an invitation to become Google Drive certified. All of the information that is there is valid for you save for one thing, the district is going to support teachers in taking the Google Drive test which is awesome. However, this does not get you recognized as being certified through Google. If you are interested in taking all of the tests, I will support you in that. There are 5 tests total and each of them are $15 each. If you choose to go this route, you have two choices. I will either pay for all five tests once you've passed them and have turned in your certificates, or I can give you 2 district credits (if you complete all five tests). Once you finish your tests, to become certified through Google you have to fill out an application and make a video. Kim and I can help you through this process as well. I'm excited to offer this opportunity to you and support you in it. I think I have all the relevant information here but if I've missed something or you have other questions, please let me know.

>>> Bill Bass 07/07/15 3:11 PM >>>Google announced their new certifications last week. Everything is now available at https://edutrainingcenter.withgoogle.com/certification Each one builds upon the other. I can't tell you what to expect at this point but there are two levels of assessments before trainer. It's brand new so I don't know what the format even is at this point. Here's the FAQ page https://edutrainingcenter.withgoogle.com/certification_faq Trainer applications open up tomorrow and I imagine it will close end of August. Here's another more complete breakdown of the certification programs.https://docs.google.com/document/d/1FLSjKWqgjHYW3FF3BWUg7IY4hv_CAjWKlYgjsHTRJ60/edit?hl=en&forcehl=1#

Library Lessons

Got Student Volunteers Teach Them to Shelve!

For those libraries that have student helpers reshelve books, here is a little online practice for them! From Mrs. Lodge’s Library blog http://www.mrs-lodges-library.com/play-shelver

~Thanks for sharing Kira

@your LibraryOctober

● National Bullying Prevention Awareness Month - Wiki & Resources

● National Reading Group Month

● National Book Month● National Go on a Field

Trip Month ● Teen Read Week Oct-

18-24● Digital Citizenship Week

- October 18-24 #havethetalk

For Fun Australian Librarians Rhapsodize About Library ServicesWhen the Shoalhaven City Council asked the staff of the Nowra Library in New South Wales to detail their achievements over the past 12 months, there was little chance that anyone was going to doze off during the presentation. “We knew it could be death by PowerPoint and we’re really partial to a bit of song and dance,” said Digital Resources Manager Robin Sharpe. The result: Librarian Rhapsody (5:01), a YouTube video that has nearly 100,000 views....

Timely TopicsMakerspaces, Gaming,, Library Spaces, Advocacy, Genrefication, and more

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Thinking About our Profession

Recently I had the opportunity to participate in a few leadership sessions with TLA (Teaching, Learning, and Assessment). What can you influence. ..tla retreat video and reflection

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Recently I had the opportunity to participate in a few leadership sessions with TLA (Teaching, Learning, and Assessment). What can you influence. ..tla retreat video and reflection

“I believe each of my students must craft an individual reading life of challenge, whim, curiosity, and hunger. I believe in the collecting, noticing, living work of designing lessons to empower writers. I believe teachers provide vision for students; we live a belief in their success every day we teach." - Penny Kittle

Resource RoundupTechnology, Research & Learning Resources\

Make a Curriculum Connection with your teachers share the following resources:

Gooru Gooru is a free, educational search engine for online resources and lesson plans in science, math, social studies and language arts. Teachers and students can search for and curate collections of multimedia resources, digital textbooks, videos, handouts, games, and quizzes. Collect and gather information into “My Collections” and “My Classes” categories. Grades: K-12.

Molecular Workbench Molecular Workbench is a free, open source environment providing visual, interactive computational experiments for teaching and learning science. Even though there are many simulations ready for use in the classroom, teachers can also create simulations based on their specific curricular needs and share them with other teachers. Grades: 9-12. Tip: Have students browse through the Simulation Showcase or Library of Models for Science Fair project ideas.

Knowmia Knowmia is a web location that features short video lessons from teachers around the globe. The lessons cover a wide range of topics, having trouble teaching a difficult subject or concept Knowmia is here to help. Over 30,000 video lessons are available to users. Search for topics using an easy, simple search tool. There is a teacher, style, subject, and lesson for every style of educator and classroom.Grades: 4th-12th Tip: Check out the myriad of videos on digital citizenship, information literacy, and enhance your library instruction with these great tools.

Hstry Hstry is a multimedia timeline creation tool that will work on your laptop, Chromebook, iPad or tablet. Students can interact and comment on peer timelines. Use a variety of media to highlight important biographical, historical, or literary events in chronological order. Add in video, images, audio, and text to the events these engaging timeline. Grades: 3-12

Engineering is Elementary Engineering is Elementary uses children’s love for building things to engage them in real-world engineering design challenges. The hands-on projects integrate an elementary school science topic with a specific field of engineering. A searchable database is included. Projects combine science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) to encourage problem-solving, inquiry, and innovation. Units include lesson plans, assessment tools, and a wealth of multimedia resources to assist teachers before and during the projects. Grades: 1-8 Tip: Display finished engineering projects in the library, along with related books, to promote STEM topics and this great website to students and teachers. #parkwaymakes

From ALA best websites 2015 www.ala.org

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Resource RoundupTechnology, Research & Learning Resources

What will you make @ your library #ParkwayMakes

Professional LearningOne option for earning Parkway credits is to participate in webinars and events, such as edcamps, slaa events, makerspace open houses etc. In order to earn participation credits watch the webinar or go to an event, then go to http://tinyurl.com/webinars-events to record your participation. Remember that district credit is based on the number of clock hours that you participate. Credit is issued as follows: six clock hours will get you .5 credit and 12 clock hours will get you 1 credit.

Google Certification Last year as we were preparing to implement Google Apps I offered any librarian who was interested the opportunity to either be reimbursed for a passed test or given district PD credit. I want to extend that opportunity to you once again. If you are interested in learning more about Google and Google Apps, this is a great, self-paced development opportunity. There are a number of librarians who already participated last year so ask your fellow librarians (or Kim) to get some insight on this. All information (including study materials and the tests themselves) can be found at http://www.google.com/edu/training/certifications/. Click on the "Certification" tab to get to more information. There's an FAQ page https://edutrainingcenter.withgoogle.com/certification_faq as well.

EventsLibrary 2.015 is all day on Tuesday, October 20th. Anyone from anywhere in the world can participate for free (as long as they have an Internet connection)! Links for the conference are below. There are 50 sessions and 3 keynotes, and the schedule with connecting information is listed for time zones throughout the world. For our pre-conference event this year, we're excited to announce Teacher Librarian Day on Monday, October 19th, a five-hour special (and also free) series of online sessions around the topic of "Teacher Librarians and School Culture" - organized by Joyce Valenza, with lots of special guests, and supported by CiSSL, the Center for International Scholarship in School Libraries at Rutgers. The conference has inherited the Global Teacher Librarian Ning network, with over 7,000 members--learn more and connect with others at http://www.teacherlibrarian.org. Earn participation credits by completing the http://tinyurl.com/webinars-events form to record your participation.

Makerspace Showcase at UMSLIf you are curious about the makerspace buzz checkout the makerspace showcase on Thursday, October 8th, 2015 from 4-7 pm! The showcase will make visible the growing MakerEd movement in the St. Louis region. This is an open invitation, so please feel free to bring your friends and colleagues. Please see the attached flyer. The showcase will be held in UMSL's new ED Collabitat, a space designed for professional creativity and innovation. They are also currently looking for makers to have exhibits at the showcase. If you would like to share your work, please fill out the application here.

ANNOUNCING MAKER CAMPAFTER-SCHOOL!

Keep making year round with Maker Camp! On Monday, October 5th will kick off a 10-

week Fall session of the After-School program. http://makercamp.com/

Need Makerspace Resources and Programming ideas seehttp://colleengraves.org/makerspace-resources-and-programming-ideas/blog designed for grade levels

Webinars● 12 Innovative Reading Ideas! New

Ways to Inspire Your Students - Wed, Dec. 9 at 3 p.m.

Archived Webinars Worth a View● You Need It: Reading Promotional

Programming That Really Works!● Makerspaces: The Now Revolution

in School Libraries● Getting the Most out of Integrating

eBooks in the Classroom: 10 Proven Lessons You Can Use Now!

● Getting the Most Out of eBooks in School: 50 Proven Tips That Really Work

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Well Said...

The library is where place and possibility meet.

~Stuart Dybek

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● Coding with Sphero● 3D printer training● Take a bite out of

reading at McKelvey● Author, Maribeth

Boelts @ Bellerive

● Author, Jackie Polys @ Mason Ridge

● Project Parkway